Bigger than wrestling, bigger than The Beatles, and bigger than breast implants? The biggest thing to hit these kids? Bigger than guns, bigger than cigarettes?

There's certainly such a thing as a male gaze - the female gaze as a term drives from that - and I would expect there's work out there analyzing queer gazes, too. Don't know if anybody's gone to work on genderqueer or nonbinary gazes yet, but it'll come. I agree that I see this show as working not particularly in the…

Fair enough. That he stopped at all was still a huge surprise to me.

Subtitles almost never match all that well when translating, in my experience.

Women drank and smoked their way through pregnancy for decades (centuries, probably) before medical science figured out it was a bad idea. While obviously it led to more birth defects than would happen naturally, definitely loads of kids were born just fine with those exposures. The current obsession, at least in the…

I am thirding Person of Interest, it's really so good. My official catch-up guide is as follows, if you change your mind:

I think at one point when they're all arguing about how fucked the plan is, Mr. Robot says "Are you sure you wouldn't rather just blow it up?" and I could swear the hijabi girl looked right at him with a somewhat startled expression. But the way the shot was framed, she could have been looking at Eliot. I suppose he…

Late to the party, but everything I've heard and read from people into this kind of kink says that when BDSM is being done right, the sub is always the one really in power—they can start or stop the scene whenever they want and for whatever reason, and it's their boundaries that must be most fiercely respected (since…

We have found the third movie for what is now our triple feature: Edward Scissorhands.

Generally, I agree. I mentioned somewhere way up in the thread a thing I wrote about her vs. Joan of Arc. (As will become apparent, it also touched on Queen Elizabeth I, and it was written before the current season aired.) This is how it ended (it started out with someone asking me about Margot's necklaces, which is…

Thank you!

Well, I don't think Fuller would suggest that "reparation" in the sense it seems like you mean would be possible. (I'm not sure if you're angry at Fuller for the narrative choices Margot has undergone or angry at Mason as a character, but for now I'm assuming the latter.) The show has spent a lot of time meditating on…

I don't know which angle you're referring to. I also am not sure where the question you're raising comes from? Killing or not killing Hannibal has nothing to do with what is "justified" and everything to do with Will's emotional state and needs, and what Hannibal means to him.

He understood Hannibal by the end of season 2, but because he'd been lying to him and trying to catch him, the relationship wasn't in a state of intimacy and understanding. Then Hannibal took his revenge in the s2 finale and they were separated geographically and also emotionally; the season until last episode was…

Will's lack of clarity had nothing to do with facts or evidence. It was entirely about the relationship he had with Hannibal and with himself. He spent this half-season finally getting to a place of perfect understanding and closeness with Hannibal, which is why he could finally let Hannibal go, not feel drawn to him…

Do an updated version of Jesus Christ Superstar called The Riz and double feature it with The Wiz. Profit.

Oh, man, I forgot about "The Riz." Is that a thing that I just don't know about or is Mason a secret genius?

The pig almost seemed like a kind of acknowledgement, since they keep using pig organs, skin, etc to substitute for human ones when Hannibal's cooking and for a lot of the second unit sequences.

"other positives were the baby in the pig"

They said straight up they were talking about Mischa, didn't they? Hannibal asked Chiyoh why she did what she did—if she did it for herself or for him—and she answered that she did it for Mischa, then immediately asked "Did you eat her?" ("Yes. But I didn't kill her.") There's no one else it could be.